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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1886-4-29, Page 6AN ECYPTIAN ROMANCE. A Story of Love and Wild Adventure, founded upon Startling Revelatjt"ns in the Career of Arabia Pasha. By the Author of "NINA, THE NIHILIST," "THE RFD SPOT," t'THE Rl75SIAN-SP:>;a" ET0., ETo,, Ere CHAPTER I,IV, VILE IOOST TERRIBLE Or ALL PERILS, AND j' LOST AMONGST MOUNTAINS—NEARLY RUN TO How NELLIE wasPR$SERVED. 7 EARTH', CHAPTER LV, Leaving the two Europeans in pureuit of six thousand Egyptiane, who were exeonting a retrogade movement, we will revert to the fortunes, or rather the misfortunes, of our lovely Nellie and her parents. The trio were olcsaly guarded and not even allowed to hold speech with one another. Nellie could not help perceiving how the 'dol of an hour had fallen in the common esti nation, She heard his conduct being disoussed in anldusd tones, but in no measured terms, on all sides of her. Such grumbling created in her heart a new alarmfor did the war minister lose his high position he would be no longer able to protect her and her parents, and they would all three assuredly lose their lives. Whilst these fears and apprehensions dis- turbed her mind Arabi Pasha himself had quite enough to endure in turn, He was continually besot by some officer of distinction or other proffering hie advice, and sometimes almost insisting on his coun- sel being followed. After a monotonous fourteen miles' march over the level. candy, treeless plain, the lit- tle village of Kafr Dowa was reached, where, though well-nigh exhausted, the troops were at once set to throw up earthworks across the narrow isthmus, as a safeguard against any possible landing and advance of the British in that direction, while not far In the rear of the working parties Arabi had a gorgeous pavilion erected, whioh had been brought for his special use from Alexandria. It was furnished with an abundance of 'Turkish rugs and cushions, the dressed skins of different wild animals and with every other appurtenance that would render both imposing and luxurious the tent of an Ori - :ental commander-in-chief. After he had perused sundry dispatches and issued all necessary orders, to this eeplendid pavilion was brought Nellie Donel- ly by one of the guards. The war minister received her with the utmost deference, and when her conductor had taken his departure he turned to her with a mule and, holding her meanwhile by an arm, exclaimed : ":How does my wife like our quarters ? Are they not very comfortable V' The fair girl caught his meaning in an in- stant and her heart seemed to stand still. " Oh, where are my father and mother 7" she Dried. "I thought that they also were being brought hither." " A wife's place is at her husband's side, both night and day, and when she marries she is understood to leave both father and mother and to cleave only unto him." " Bat I am not your wife. 1 was no con- aentfng party. I was already married." " Those wild statements have been refut- ed again and again, even from your father's and mother's lips, We Orientals cannot understand parents not being able to die - pose of their daughters as they list, ner is such au anomaly comprehended in Christian countries in which I have sojourned. Be• sides, the priest of your faith declared that you are were not rightly married to your countryman who ran away with you, while I am very sure tbat y on are rightly married unto me. For these several and good reasons I call you my wife, and from this morning I swear by Allah and the prophet that you shall share the same tent and the same couch with me. I have said it." An expression of stony despair came into Nellie's fade. She gazed fer a moment daetractedly round at all tho Oriental pomp and splendor by which she was surrounded, but they fail - on to fire her ambition or to dazzle her im agination, as her Moslomlord had donbtlese hoped that they would do, The carved bamboo poles bent to the de- sert wind that had just sprung up and the crimson damask lining of the magnificent tent glittered till the myriads of Minebea of forget -me -note that were embroidered thereon seemed to be instinct with life ani, as they mat her view, Nellie remembered that a blue forget-me-not was the last flower that Frank Donelly had ever given to her. This recollection it was which restored to her the courage and resolution that was an essential part of her character, and she plucked from Arabi's belt the revolver that was carelessly thrust therein, and present- ing the muzzle at his very forehead, declared in a voice which desperation rendered Oren that she would pull the trigger if he did not let her go, " Is your hatred to me so great as all that ?" demanded Arabi as he recoiled, " My love of my husband and my honor is as great as that and greater. I caro little whether I destroy you or myself. if it real- ly is a noble cause which you aro supporting and your life is indispensable to its success, tell me so and I will point the weapon to- ward my weak and .worthless self, Wel- oome death a thousand times rather than a life spent with you in the °Imam: for of your third or even your second wife." An involuntary admiration of her conduct seized upon the war miniator then. Ho felt .instinctively that such a girl must possess a soul, no matter though the tenets of his creed declared to the contrary, and his browscontracted more with the weight of thought than under the influence of anger as he said in scarcely audible accents : "You have donbtly disarmed me, You are safe. You may lower that weapon." By the time that he had finished speaking not only had they quited his own sumptu- one pavilion, but they had also gained a les- ser tent, behind the flap of whose oanvae Nellie could plainly dietingulsh the voices ef her father and mother,' " will not oome in with you," said Arabi, " I have lost all esteem for your parente, and 1 care hot to hold convene with those whet I have ceased to respect, Yon dan tell them that within a quarter of an hour you will all three be journeying by special train to Cairo, for the station ie not a bun- Bred yards away, and whither you will he taken when you arrive there. The protect- ors that I shall give unto you may be per- fectly relied on, for they examen who know that their future rests with me, eo even their selfish interests will make them faith ful to their trust. And now farewell," As he concluded the war minister raised the Iovely girl's hand to his lips and kissed it fervently—almoet, indeed, reverentially. Then he raised the flap of the tent for her to enter it thereunder, and when she had ,disappeared from his sight he oinked and returned alone to his gorgeous pavilion, muttering t� himmelf the while : "I wonder if 1 have acted' as an honor. .able man siraaply as a fool," Two Europeans, wan, half starved and in every way wretched, begirt by as many perils as ever was the Apostle Paul, are wandering alone in the deeert, attempting to make their way overland toward some part or other of the Suez Canal. Not to make a mystery of the matter, they are none other than Frank Donellyell and his devoted follower, Pat Monaghan, whom in the chapter before the last we beheld Betting out from Alexandria in the dead of night on a most Qaixotie and hopeless er- rand, as any but a lover and an Irishman would have perceived from the very first. At last, one moonlight night, they had been perceived prowling in the neighbor- hood of an advanced picket, actually in the rear of the Egyptian lines (a hanging matter according to every military code in exist. canoe), so that a troop of horse had been sent In pureuit of them, and these, turning their mating and tting them off from Alexandria, had chased them for fifteen miles out into the desert, and from that time whenever they had sought to retusn they had encoun- tered some body of Bedouin horse or other, who drove them first in one direction and then in another, till at last (although they ea vet bad managed to keep clear of hostile lead and steel) they were altogether lost, and no more knew the way back to Alexan- dria than the way to reaan the moon. They had been lost for more than a month now, and all that while they have wandered to and fro in a weird wild region of hill and mountain, with large stretches of desert between hille rounded at the tope, bare of verdure and hideously monotonous of aspect, so that one can hardly be distinguished from another, whioh makes it all the more diffi- cult to get out of this apparently enohanted region, and often after attempting it for a whole day they have found themselves at sunset close to where they started from at sunrise, Even in this terrible region, however, there Ls an oasis to be found at intervals wide apart, each with a natural spring in ite centre (whence, undoubtedly, its existence), and adorned at the least with fig and date treesfruit than whioh Ina clime like Egypt nothing more is wanted to support life. One morning just at dawn, Frank Don- elly started as they were in the act ef sad- dling their horses and exclaimed in excited tones to his companion, " Did you not hear it ?" " Begorra, an' bad cess to that same, I can only hear the barking of a fox." " Yoa aren't troubling to listen. I wish you would, for I want your opinion about " Be jabers, I can hear it now, your honor. There must be a neat of 'em close by." " A neat of what, Pat ? What on earth de you make it out to be then ?" " Why, if it ain't the buzzing of the moat thundering bumble beea or hornets I'm blessed." " It sounds to me a deal more like the rush of steam through the 'scape pipe of a diotant steamer. It seemed famIller to me the instant that I heard it." " I wish it was, yer honor, but steamers don't come tearing across deserts." " No, Pat, but in many places the desert stretches to the very banks of the Suez Gan - al, whioh is traversed by ocean steamers ooutinually. Let us up and away and at once make in the direction of the sound. There is hope for us yet, my boy.' " If there is, begone, here comes a pack of those brown Bedouin devils determined to do their best to cut us off from it. We've not amoment to lase, yer honor," There was no need to lose even half a min- ute, for the horses were already saddled, and they had but to leap upon their backs, gath- er up the reins and kink the corners of their shoe -shaped stirrupa against their bony ribs in lieu of spurs. This done away they sped with the speed of the vory wind out of the fertile oasis and across the brown desert sand, whilst the Bedouins, who had evidently hoped to steal down upon them unperceived, runt the air with their shrill and angry cries and brand- ished their long spears cn high. The monotonous sound still continued, and the fugitives guided their horses in ice direction, If it waa what Frank Donelly supposed it to be 'twee still a long way off, and by the time they had reached the canal the steamer, from whioh he almost hoped against hope that it proceeded, might have passed quite out of sight. Then all at once it struck him : Was the canal still open ? He was aware that the war minister had threatened to destroy it on the firing of the first hostile cannon against Alexandria. If he had kept his word, the supposed steamer was a myth, and the strange hum- ming noise was caused by something that might be hostile instead of friendly to them, These were anything bat agreeable doubts and fears, As a drowning man clutches at a straw, so, however, did Captain Donelly and Pat Monaghan hang on desperately to this, their almost remaining hopeas they aped on and on across the level plain and around one hill after another, the continuously humming sound alone enabling them to steer a toler- ably straight course. The Bedouins hung as perseveringly' on their trail, however, as grim death spurs his white horse hard on the traok of plague, pestilence or (amino, and every time they ventured to look bank their pureners Boomed to have gained on them, whilst that they themselves were aware of the fact was ovi• dent from their frequent exulting shouts and the continual frantic brandishing of lance and matchlock. A wild and ferocious looking set they were, with their long bearde, floating scarlet headdresses, bronzed, hair naked forms and enormous swords slung over their backs ; whilst their horses looked almoet equally ferocious, with their tossing heads and streaming manes and tails, and those other tails dyed bright red that dangled and sway ed from their picturesque barneae. " Pat, unless Providence Is eipeclally looking after ne, they'll run us to earth," This at last, in almoet despairing tones, came from Pat's master ; hut Monaghan's thoroughly characteristic reply was : " Bedad, yer honor, an' (t'a hard to say ; but for myeelf. I feel in better spirits now that there's something more to roues mo up than the fifes an' other stinging an' worriting creatures. An' besides, we've tailed through almost as bad before.'' " Well, Pat, we can but do oar best ;• an,d, by Jove, that we will do to the last gasp," They spoke no more, but strained every neeve to prevent the Bedouins gaining ground. d. Their solo comfort wan that that half hum- ming and half ehrteking noise was more plainly audible than ever in their front, and decidedly very muoh nearer. Bat sound is very unoextain in some elates of the atmoaphere, and the still, balmy air of Egypt bears sound at all times a long way, no that it might be still =ilea distant, And now the Bedouins slung their lances andhandled their matoblookti the next in etant dieoharging them whilst at full scallop, according to their usual curative. The bullets buzzed past the ears of the fugitives like weeps and they made the most unpleasant discovery that they wore already within range.. To tarn at bay upon more than a snore of time would, however, have been positive madness, and so they atilt continued their flight, a flight that now appeared to be hopeless. A big hill was directly before them, ob- structing all view behind. °t 1f there's no moor on the other side of that we will sell our lives at the best price we can get for them, Pat," said Frank Don - oily, as be carefully examined his revolver. "Ye may well say that," was Monaghan's response, "° for my nag is about dead beat as it is." The Bedouins perceived this as well, and their erica became like those of hungry wolves, Donelly involuntarily drew in his own steed somewhat, determined that he wouldn't plaoe himself by so muoh as a single yard in a safer position than that occupied by his brave and faithful follower. The horses were both reeling rather than galloping now, but in another minute, as the base of the rooky hill was rounded, both officer and man almost shrleked with de- light at what they beheld, for not five hun- dred yards in front of them was a narrow strip of red water, and an enormous white - hulled transport flying the British Union Jack lying motionless in the centre, whilst her bulwarks were crowded with red•jaoket- ed, white peak -helmeted soldiers, geeing with eager curiosity in their direction, doubtless owing to the report of the Bedouin matchlocks having reached their ears. Three minutes later Captain Donelly and Pat had gained the bank of the canal, whilst the Bedouins, swooping round the base of the hill, in turn received such a deadly car- bine fire from the deck of the British tran- sport that half of their saddles were emptied, whereupon the survivors shrieked, wheeled round and disappeared behind the hill again with a gniokness that did more credit to horse than man. CHAPTER LVI. THE DEATH RIDE AT EL MAGFAR—THE FIRST vw roar. Ten minutes later Captain Donelly and Pat Monaghan were safe aboard the Brltlsh transport Greece, which had been waiting for as much as a couple of hours in the Nar- rows of Atabet for a pilot to navigate her through Lake Tlmsah to the town of Ismail- ia, where, according to instructions of the oommander-in-ohief, her living freight was to be put ashore. Both officer and man were glad enough to find themeelvea amongst fellow -countrymen, and more especially red coats, but how was their satisfaction increased when, directly they set foot on the transport's decks, the " Fourth D. G." on the shoulder scrape of the soldiers who thronged around informed them of the meet agreeable fact that they were with the Royal Irish Dragoon Guards, by nickname " The Happy Family," and in short, their own regiment, " Thought you'd turn up somewhere or other, old fellow," exclaimed one officer. "Hardly in such a Mezeppa life fashion, though," added another. " I never beheld a more exciting steeplechase in my life. Well ridden, too." Thus, admilst jests and congratulations, was their brother officer escorted to the sa- loon, while the troopers lugged Pat Mona- ghan off to the ship canteen to treat him to what he had for weeks been longing for and dreaming of and chiefly talking about, and what he had taken to calling the "three bleeeed B.'s," namely, bread, beef, and beer. We are getting BO near to the end of our tale that we find we have no time to waste over table talk. It was the officers breakfast hour end Frank Douolly was quite ready for the meal, When he had b-iefly narrated his osvn adventures and lfeteuadin turn to plenty of divers opinions concerning the campaign, all p%rties holding the arias'. !mem conviction, uowever, that they would be crossing ;worth with the Egyptalns with- in a very few hours et most, he excitedly exclaimed : "1 wish to heaven that I had a horse and a uniform, so that I might join yon." " Faith, and I don't see what's to pre- vent your doing that same," responded the regimental surgeon, a genial cove of Cork, as he was in general facetiously termed "There's Captain 61urphydown with fever, which he made worse through being in too great a hurry to recover, but I'm euro he'll feel a deal of satisfaction to think his coat has a chance of being in the thick of the fun even if he has to remain outaide it. He's a man of just your own build, Captain Donelly, and his horse is one jest after your own heart, I'm sure." "Are there any sink amongst the men, co that my fellow Pat may have an equal ouance?" "There's jnet three, who, I fear, will have small hope of drawing sabres before the time has come to sheath them, and I've no doubt your man will find that out and not let suck an opportunity slip," "No, I'll be sworn that he won't," replied Frank, "And I'll wager, too, chat he'll do the work of any three ordinary men, if only previously well fortified with beef and beer," Two hours later the Greece wan discharg- ing her living freight upon the quay at Is- mailia, and some of the dragoons wore sent off to the front as quickly as they oould be got into their saddles. ' « * * * * * * A few words of explanation aro essential here in order that the reader may know what the British troops were about to far away from Alexandria. The fact was that when the commander- in-ohief, Sir Garnet Wolseley, n•rrived at Alexandria on the 2bth of August, he Found that Arabi Pasha had raised such formidable batteries at Kafr Dewar (where we left him in the chapter before last) that he complete- ly blocked the short and straight road to Cairo, and so effectually that a fearful lots of life must have been the result of any attempt to force a way in thdt direction. Soy four days after his arrival, Sir Garnet re -embarked more than half his army, osten- sibly with the objeot of attacking the forte in. Aboukir bay and there effecting a landing ; and, having deceived not only the enemy, but a host of treubleromo and mischievous newspaper correspondents by the carefully spread report, he acoompliahed the moat bril- liant ruse known In modern warfare by steaming on far past the anticipated point of attack and seizing' the whole length of the Suez' Banal, time in lose than twenty-four hours mosteuceeesfnlly accomplishing a com- plete strategic change of baae,,briuginghim• self nearer to the capital of Egypt by a good fife mites; than he was at Alelrandria strik- l Y , r hedireotly Arabi Pa ha o it at s a c mmunio ti n rewith and turning and, render'ingaper- f ectly useless the formidable works at Kafr Dewar, whioh bad taken him more than a month t0 conatruot.. Thus was the outgenraled Egyptian oom celled to ehuw un entirely new front in the Valley of the Sweet Water canal, whioh. canal he, however, promptly detained up, in an attempt to out off the only sources of water supply available to the British troops, whose position for a while was critical enough, in the neighborhood of Ismailia, at all events ; for, independent of the water difficulty; Arabi had the railway at his COM. Bland and, no sooner bad the two thousand even and a couple of guns Neu thrown ashore, than ten thousand Egyptians, with a battery of a dezen Krupp centime. came steaming down from Zag.aZig, resolved to drive the whole of the little fordo into Lake Timaah. It was the quick approach of the Egyptians whioh had caused the dragoon guerde to be take themeelvea speedily to their saddles the very minute that their horses were slung ashore, and no sooner were they mounted than a couple of squadrons were Bent for- ward to reconnoitre, nae on the right aide of the bank in the direction of Nepthe and the other on the left bank toward El Magfar. Captain Donelly had been given the com- mand of the latter squadron and he nomin. ated Pat Monaghan hie orderly. The instruotionc were to bo on the alert, to advance in line when the ground was suf- ficiently open for such a formation. and gen- erally to feel the way au far as El Megfar, there to discover what the enemy were about and if possible obtain a clue as to what they meant doing. " Threse about 1 march 1 trot 1" and out flashed the sabres and away filed the dra- goons in sections of threes, all in the highest spirits at the near proapeot of a brash with the foo. After they had proceeded for about a league, from behind te small but dense patch of scrub Frank Donelly thought that he dis- tinguished the glitter of steel. He was about to send half a dozen men forward to recon- noitre, when he was saved all trouble on that score by the enemy suddenly revealing himself in the shape of a well-moanted regi- ment of Egyptian horse, who came epurring from the rear of the scrub, brandishing their lances ae though they thoroughly meant rale:thief. In numbers they were thrice the strength of the British, whilst their horses were in fine condition. They thus had the advan- tage in every way. But of oonree retreat was not to be thought of, and so Captain. Donelly, as he cast loose his holster flaps and then waved his sword, ahouted out : " Trot 1 gallop 1 charge 1 Give them the point, lade, when you can, and remember all of you to watch your opponent's eye and not his blade 1" The Egyptian cavalry did not stop to re- ceive them, but, waiting until their foes were almost within pletol shot of them, they parted to left and right, made a rapid re- trograde movement in two columns, whilst at the very moment that they thus divided asunder a puff of white smoke and a flash of red flames broke through the patch of scrub and a shell came hurtling through the air and fell plump amongst the dragoons, caus- ing their horses to rear, plunge and shriek. The ruse of the Egyptain cavalry had ex- plained Haiti. Their sole intention had been to tempt the British dragoons within point blank range of their masked battery, and they had effected their fell design, for, "Hue- r -r 1 Hur-r-r 1 Hur-r-r 1" Dame three more of the small howitzer shells, and one trooper's head was whipped clean from off his shoulders and the bowels of another torn out and scattered all his horse and saddle trappings. Every one looked anxiously toward their leader, wondering what his next command would be. " Oh 1 On 1 We daren't let it be poured at ne in retreat, and the boldest course is the safest !" They saw it was so ; but had they not it weuld have been all the same. The long brass trumpets Bounded the " gallop," and the dragoons went straight at the scrub. The noise wee deafening, the smoko was blinding, but in they burst and on they rush- ed, and in another couple of minutes they were tbrongh the eorub and sabering the artilleryman at their guns, whilst the Egyp- tian cavalry, who might have made mince meat of them whilst so engaged, seized with a wild panic, galloped away across the de- sert, leaving guns and gunner; alike to their fate, and in the deadly melee Captain Danel- ly, who exposed himself most fearlessly, would more than once have met his own but for the valor and the fidelity of Pat Monaghan. (To BE CONTINUED.) A Hazardous Occupation. Some time ago the statement was publish- ed, upon apparently good authority, that in the course of five years service about 70 per cent. of train bands upon our rail- ways are injured. This statement has never been denied. The average life of a freight brakeman is about ten years. If the number of ac- cidents be taken into consideration, and the expense entailed upon the oompaniee for damages paid in the case of such ac- cidents be estimated, it will be seen what a burden is oarried by the roads on account of the defective appliances now used on freight trains. Most of the accidents and nearly all the loss of life caueed by them is because the freight engineer has no control over hie train. The methods of stopping them are autignated and imperfect. Under these circumstances does it not seem strange that on all railways the most modern appliances for etopping freight trains and locomotives are not used? There aro diver brakes for freight loco- motives and automatic brakes for freight oarsthom- which de all that is claimed for This being the case, why are not these new appliances generally adopted ? Shocking Bad Taste. "My dear, don't you :intend to invite Mr. and M. Green to yottr party ?" asked Mr. Biller, " Certainly not." " Why not, my dear? They are good friends of ours." " What if they are 1 I -am going to in- vite Mr. and Mrs. Brown." "Well, can't you invite the Greene, me well ? " Why, Jehn Biller, you shock me with your tasted Brown and Green in my par- lors together ! Why, next; you'll be asking me to wear blue and yellow 1 I declare, you men have no idea whatever of ham molly!" master er-' Thirty millions' of loge are Bald to bo Y ready ioilio floated down the Connecticut River. They will bo sawed at the foot of Mount Tom, TUB LIUD-RILN CLUB. ., I should like to spoke a few words to Bruddor Amazon Green," said the Preei- deut as the meeting opened and the Hall grow quiet. Brother Green, who is a young man with a mellow look and a hitch in his gait, ad - winced to the platform in a hesitating ream nor and the President continued "Brudder Green, I Tarn dat you am on de pint of gwine inter bizness fer yerseif, I am. told dat you am soon to open a oo ner grocery an' a butcher ehop combined," Yee, Bah." I'ze glad dat you am about to make a start in life, and I desiah to drop a few hints whioh may be of seine value to you- Brudder Green, do grocer whe gives fifteen ounces to de pound may wax fat fur a few years an' git to bo referee at a wreetlin' match, but Juetioe has her eye on him, and when the ole gal gits around to it she'll gin him a dose dat will aot him back fer twen- ty years. "De pusson who sells fifty-oent tea an' two•ehillin' tea from de same ohist may it along powerful smart fur a while, but he's only coaxin' a bile to grow on hie nose. When de bile Domes he'll pay out more for flaxseed dan he has made en tea. "In sollin' beefsteak study human netur'. Some men duan' object to a pound and a half of bone to half a pound of pleat, but we ain't all built arter dat faehun, Doan' kill a hundred dollars wort of custom fur do sake of seilin' fo' oenta worf of bone. " While it am expected dat you will hide de bad taters in de middle of de measure, dean' misunderatan' de public an' water yer 'lasses as well, " If a man axes you fer laoib an' you has an got nuffia but ole sheep, tell him so. Deceivin' a man on mutton makes him as muoh your enemy as if you beat him out o' a oongreshunal nominashun. " De paper which yon buy fur two oents a pound kin be weighed up wid goods dat sell fur fifteen and nobody will kick, but doan' emagino dat die gives yon license to roast beans wid your coffee or keep fillin' up de vinegar bar'1 wid rain -water. " Be keerful whom you credit. Dar am plenty of people in die world who like to pay debts, but dar am about de same num- ber who will jump you fur some other stoah as soon as de books balance fo'teen cents agin'em. " Doan' cease gwine to ohuroh bekaee you am in business, but next time de pew -rent - In' Domes off take a seat a leedle furder back, Lots of people hev somehow got de ideah dat a modern blzness man, dein' bizness arter de medorn fashnn, has got to do a heap o' wrestlin' wid iris conscience in case he adopts any pertiokler brand o' religan. "Da publio will expect you to make some mistakes in addishun, but be a leetle keer- ful about it. Make 'em in favor of de pub- lio about half de time." FAILED TO PASS. J edge Chewee offered the following reso- lution : " Resolved, Dat it am de sense of die Lime -Kiln Club dat de present Cowries should pass a law makin it a penal offense fur any pigeon to place a torpedo chicken in hie coop, De reason we want dis law am to purteok de nateral chicken from bein' eubjeok to exploshun." Lord limberly Johnson favored the reso- lution. The torpedo chicken was invented to surprise the parson who gained access to a hen -coop and undertook to pull a pullet off her roost, but time had demonstrated that the torpedo was liable to explode at any other time and bring destruction upon inno- cont fowls. Sir Wallace Smith also favored the reso- intion. He was the friend of the hen unde< all oiroumstances, and he would ever raise his voice to ameliorate her down -trodden condition. The -Rev. Penstock opposed the resolution and demanded a call of the roll. Certain people were always seeking to connect col ored people and ohiokens together, but why he could not eee. If the torpedo chicken was invented to protect ohiokens from thieves why need the colored man be afraid? Why need any colorel man Beek to work up sympathy for the hen? Judge Chowso might prefer hen -beef to other meats, but let him eat it in silence and not seek to drag this club before the public in a false light. The Secretary then called the roll, and the Judge's resolution was voted down by a majority of 47. • NOT ONE, A communication from St. Leafs made inquiry if any member of the Lime -Kiln Club would be attached to any base ball club, oircus, theatrical oompany or dime museum this coming season, If none had been engaged were any members open to engagement ? Seventeen members arose in chorus, and seventeen voices were seeking to get the pitch, when the,President's gavel carne down and he asked : " Why dis sadden emoshun? Am dar a fiah in de grocery below ?" " What's de salary ?" asked Colonel June- berry Crosstree in an anxious voice, "Salary far what?" i0 Fur trabblin' around de kentrya' " Brudder Cresstree, sot down ! I'zs happy to inform de public dat no member of dis club am ingaged up to de present mo- ment. Forder dan dat, none am open to ingagement. We's all gwine to stay right heah an' attend to our co'n an' Caters. Does any pusson in dis Hall desiah to ap- peal from de deoishun of die oha'r ?" He looked up and down the aisles, There was dead silence, Nobody desired to ap- peal. NOT A DEFAULTER. Sir Ieaao Walpole, of the committeeo on Internal Investigation, desired to eport on the case of Alabaster Jordan, Assistant Treasurer. Some four weeks since Brother Jordan found his oash short by fifteen Dents, or, rather the Investigating Committee did, and he was suspended pending au examina- tion. Four days since, in changing his socke, the heart -broken man found the Blies- ing money in his lett heel, where it had slipped (own from a hole in his pocket, He had felt the hard substances there right along, but supposed, of coarse, they Wt re two new corns of revised pattern. The m;nay had been banded in, his accounts balanced, and it pleased Sir Isamo to bo able to inform the club that Brother Jordan stood before them as inn000nt as a spring lamb. On motion of Pickles Smith, the club adopted a resolution to tho effect that it had not lostany confideuce in the assletant trea- aurer, THE CODE, Prof, Burwell Cavendish, a late local member, made his debut by inquiring if the club officially upheld the code. If he vas ineulted, an'd he challenged the insulter, would the club etand by him ? " What would you challenge him to do ?" aeked the President. " To meet me on do field of honah, salt," „What fur?" g, To fight, sah, Oh, r neo, Well, Brudder Cavendish, nay advice to yon am to keep off' de field of honah. You'll gityyor feet all wet, ta'r yer ooat•tailo on de bushes, and probably be run off by de farmer^ s, brindled dog. When a man Somme na '' e an dose , it b mean,Pre t0 e g wino to let drive fur hie nose wid my unch of fives Date code'nuff fur anybody, an' you kin bit him on de sidewalk as welt as to go off to some field of honah, Let ua now adjourn fur one week," Training the children. Children should be spared from sorrow ee mach as possible ; their sunshine of hope and joy should never be dimmed, so as to leave them without even the memory of its glory. The .perfume of a thousand roses eeou dies, but the pain caused by one of their thorns remains long after ; a saddened remembrance in the midst of mirth is like that " thorn among the roses." When an accident mature, learn whether it was through misfortune, oarelesenees or wilfulness before you pees eentenoe. Aooi- dente are frequently of great aervioe, and children often learn more caution and gain more real information from their oaourrence than from fifty lessons. Be it r +reembered that theperfection rfeat'o ofecieno5 ow p i n e Ra... ing to the ocourrenoe and remedy of its early aooi- dente, There can be no greater mistake than to ooneider children as destitute of understand- ing ; their uuderetanding should rather be appealed to and oonaulted Most of us re• member being imposed upon in youth and how our elders sought sometimes to put us off with evasive a mowers or insufficient ex- planations ; how they told us some plausi- pie story as an excuse or as a reason ; we al- so remember that even in our youth and simplicity we were quite capable of seeing through their maneuvers. Now I do not believe in this sort of thing. There should be no stifling of truth and no relaxation of duty. If, as often will ap pen, it is not expedient or proper for the children to know a particular fact or in- cident, they should be told so with kindnet s and frankneae, but at the same time with firmness. 1 am afraid parents are too apt to overlook the intelligence of their children and address themselves to their stature ; they forget the mind, whioh is invisible, in the presence of matter, which is seen. Tne treatment of children must always, for their own sakes, differ muoh from that of adults. Our manner of addreeeing them must also be different ; but there does not seem to be any reason why we should not give them full oredit for the amount of in- telligenoe they do pounces. We may every day see children with more discrimination, greater good sense, of better regulated mor- al deportment, than many whose tall figure or riper age has invested them with the consequence of men and women. A Bulgarian Heroine. The Widdin correspondent of the St. Petersburg Novesti sends to that newspaper the folio Niue account of se young Bulgarian girl who took an active part in the late war against Servia, distinguishing herself at Siivnitza and at Pitot, and reoeived two crosses for bravery. Previous to the out- break of hostilities she joined a oompany of militia—such companies were then forming in various parts of Bulgaria—and a000m- panied it to the southern frontiiethe the hope of there meeting with the enemy,1 During some time she managed to conceal her sex, for her oomrades took her to be a youth with an effeminate face, of which there were many snoh to be met with among the militia. Only the commander of her oom- pany knew her secret; she was obliged to disclose it to him when the company had set out upon its march, and he appears to have loyally kept it to himself, In all exercises, parades and reviews she took part jointly with her mals comrades. At last, when Servia declared war against Bulgaria, the heroine took part in the forced arch into Servia, fought at the battle of'S itza, axed joined in the attack upon Pir t. During the fight she did all she could to encourage her comrades, and they in return unamions- ly voted to her the company's medal for bravery. When, in consequence of the war coming to as end, the militia was dispersed she wont to Sofia and was there presented to Prince Alexander, who awarded her a second decoration for bravery. She then returned to Widdin, her place of domicile before the war, where she ante as servant to an old lady. She says that should the Servians begin another war she will again fight against them, but in her woman's at- tire, for it is not worth while to change one's dress for such an enemy. Essay on " Columbus." The following story comes from a school in the Midlands, The master told the boys of the third class to write a short essay upon Columbus, The following was sent up by an ambitious essayist : " Clumbus was a man who oould make an egg stand on end without breaking it. The King of Spain said to Clumbus, ' Can you discover America ? ' Yes,' said Clumbus, ' if you will give me a ship.' So he had a ship, and called over the sea in the direction where he thought America ought to be found. The sailors quarrelled, and they said they believed there was no such place. But after many days the pilot came to him and said, ' Clumbus,' I see land.' ' Then that is America,' said Clumbus. When the ship got near the land was full of black men. Clumbus said, ' Is this America ?' ",Yes it is,' said they. Then he said, ' I euppose you are the Niggers ?' ' Yes," they said ; ' we are.' The ohief suppose you are Clumbus ?' ' You are right,' said he. Then the chief turned to his men and said, ' There is no help for it; we aro discovered at last.' A New Way tIo R se Chickens: " Pompey, has yo' hearn 'bout new way o' raisin' ohiokens ?" " No, Jube. or'at'e dat ?" " Why, I blebs dey calls it artyfishus mefod, or raisin' chickens without a mud - der." ' " Raisin' ohiokens 'dont a madder ? Lor' sakes 1 dat boy 'Zekal o' mine knowo all 'bout ." " Hedatdo ?" " Yang ! He'm been raisin' ohiokens off o' roosts deze las' ten year, an' I don' spec' he ebber took his madder wid 'im once." -Dass.-i Mary Anderson is computed. to be worth $500,000, which is said to be safely invested in real estate,' gas atocke and railway shares, both in England and America. A small portion of ie is in American bonds, She ex • peote to clear this year $150,000. But our Mary is not so doh as her sister professional, Lotti, who, as a rule, lives frugally, and is eminently businesslike. She olaime to be, and probably is, the wealthiest woman on the stage. Her dollars are estimated as totalling up to considerably more than a clear million, Most of the money is held in the halite of her mother, Mre. Crabtree, who has been her daughter's business manager ever sines she appeared on the stage. Lotta has sustained only one porion; monetary lose. A man she was engaged to wap at the bottom of it, She let him have $20,000 to epeou- late with. He lost the whole of it, and Lotta's heart and hand at the sante time,